The Alpha Triplets And The Rogue
Chapter 74

Ace’s POV

Bryce storms out of the back room of the bar with a pained expression on his face. I immediately know what happened in that back room. He rejected her.

My heart sinks as I think about what could have been. I really thought that the four of us could have been happy together, but I guess that I was wrong.

Bryce hops over the bar and I slide his drink over to him but he pushes it away. “Let’s get out of here.” His voice is shaking and for the first time in his life I think that I might see him cry.

“Where is Erica?” I ask him before finishing the drink that is sitting in front of me.

Bryce growls angrily at the sound of Erica’s name. “She is still in the back,” he says gruffly before he picks up the drink that he pushed away and puts it to his lips. He tilts his back and downs the drink in one go. Shaking his head at the taste of the whiskey, Bryce covers his mouth with his fist and I am sure he is going to puke.

“So,” I begin to ask what happened in the back room but Bryce shakes his head at me angrily.

“Not here,” he says as he gets to his feet and walks out of the bar.

I throw a few bills onto the bar and give Lynne a little wink before I follow my brother out of the door. By the time I make it outside, Bryce is punching the side of my car, leaving massive dents in the door.

“Dude,” I yell out as I rush to his side. “What the f**k?”

“She f*****g rejected me,” he screams into the night before slamming his hand into the door of my car once again.

I stand in the parking lot of the Bunny Club with a bewildered look on my face. I thought that we had come here for Bryce to reject Erica.

“I thought that’s what we were here for,” I ask in confusion.

“It is… I mean… it was,” Bryce stutters. “But when I saw her…”

“You couldn’t do it,” I finish his sentence for him.

Bryce finally stops putting dents in the side of my car and we stand in the dark parking lot. I know at this moment that neither one of us is willing to leave this place without Erica.

The thump of the music coming from the bar fills the silence between Bryce and I. Bryce is looking at the ground and kicking the gravel around in the parking lot.

“What are we going to do?” I ask him quietly.

“She isn’t my mate anymore,” Bryce chuckles but I can see the tears forming in his eyes. “What are you going to do?”

“Did you accept it?” I ask Bryce.

“What?” Bryce lifts his head and looks at me in confusion.

“For f***s sake, Bryce. Did you not pay attention to anything while we were growing up? In order to sever the mate bond you have to accept the rejection.” I shake my head in frustration.

“I didn’t accept it,” Bryce says. “I told her no when she asked me to.”

“Then it isn’t too late,” I tell Bryce almost cheerfully. “We still have time to fix this.”

“What do you expect me to do?” Bryce runs his fingers through his hair and tugs on it. “There is no way that she will come with me now. She hates me.”

“I am not leaving here without my mate,” I tell Bryce. “I am sick of waiting for her to come home on her own.”

I storm away from my car and back into the Bunny Club. I push my way through the crowd and back to the bar. I only see the redhead at the bar. I lift my nose to the air and the scent of lavender is almost missing. I tap my hand on the bar loudly, grabbing the attention of Lynne.

Lynne saunters back over to me and leans across the bar. I can smell the whiskey on her breath as she talks to me.

“She is gone,” Lynne says with a frown on her face.

“What do you mean she is gone?” I growl at Lynne.

“I mean she left with one of you,” Lynne says with an odd expression on her face. “I don’t know which one though but it obviously wasn’t you.”

I furrow my eyebrows in confusion. “How many of us were here tonight?” I ask her.

“Three of you,” Lynne says with a crooked smile. “One of you has been coming to the bar every night and watching her.”

“Chris has been here?” I am dumbfounded.

Lynne shrugs her shoulders. “I guess. Now, I have other men eager for my attention. Are we done with this?”

“Yeah,” I say angrily as I turn around and leave.

I storm out of the bar and back to the car where I see Bryce waiting for me with his arms crossed over his chest. His eyes are boring into my own as I walk towards the car.

“Where is she?” Bryce asks with a hint of urgency in his voice.

“You aren’t going to believe this,” I chuckle. “She left with Chris.”

Bryce turns around and hits my car again. “Of course she did,” he growls into the night. “She has been f*****g him this whole time.”

I look at Bryce in confusion once again. “What makes you say that?”

“She told me,” Bryce says angrily.

“What the f**k,” I g***n. “When did this get so f*****g complicated?”

“When the Moon Goddess gave us all the same mate,” Bryce growls again.

“Did they run off together?” I ask Bryce.

“She claims they didn’t.” Bryce is now pacing back and forth beside my car. “She claims that he hunted her down.”

“That sounds like something that Chris would have done,” I tell Bryce but he is too angry to listen. I don’t want to believe that Erica and Chris would run off together and leave us behind.